Home Made Cough Syrup

Works well for most coughs.

Quick and easy to make, but needs to sit
overnight before
it is ready to use.

Lasts a month or more in the refridgerator.

Tastes ok, though with an onion flavor.

This home made cough syrup works not only for coughs, but my husband
likes it to help with a cold as well.

Like so many whole foods, raw honey and the juice of raw onion both
have properties that help us to heal. This recipe uses the
honey to draw the good medicine out of the onion to make a syrup. Then
you remove the onion pieces.

Some
kids may not like this, but it is so easy to make that you don't have
to invest much time to find out if yours will like it.
Recipe ingredients:

One medium sized yellow onion

One or two cups of raw, unfiltered honey.

The amount of honey you
will need depends on the size of your onion.

In a pinch you can use the cooked honey that is what most grocery
stores sell, but the cooking destroys some of the healing properties of
the honey.

A glass container with a water tight, screw lid to hold the
mix, like a mason jar. (Do not use plastic.)

Here is the recipe:

Thinly slice a medium yellow onion.

Lay the slices in the glass jar.

Pour or spoon the honey over it a few times until
you have loosely placed all the onion into the container.

Fill the container with honey up to the level of the onion
or a little higher.

You
will see that the onions actually shrink as their juices are drawn into
the honey. After it sits overnight )or about 8 hours) strain out the
onion pieces CAREFULLY. The onions will tend to stay clumped together.

Makes about one cup of
syrup.

Storage:
My experience is that it lasts at least a month if kept in the
refrigerator.

Dosage:
Take
as often as you wish. A spoonful once every hour is not too much. There
is no drug
here, just healing elements of nature that people have lived with
safely for years.

However, there is a lot of sugar in it,
and sweet things can interfere with your immune system. Not what you
want when you are sick. So take it only as needed.

If you
use it before bed, remember to rinse out your mouth afterwards to
remove the sugar from your teeth, perhaps using the salt water gargle.

We also offer a recipe for another home-made cough syrup
that also helps sore throats. It takes a little longer to make, and
uses more, different herbs (no onion), but it is a great syrup
for sore
throats also, which this syrup does not address much.